contemporaries
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Posen says that George and his contemporaries are not “failed generals” who would otherwise be fired and replaced during wartime.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
The obscurity condemned by Johnson derives in part from Shakespeare’s readiness to draw on vocabulary that would have struck even his contemporaries as bewilderingly nonstandard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
The apparent lack of interest in Terry as a manager is in stark contrast to some of his contemporaries from England's much-lauded 'golden generation'.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
This Sweet 16 features Pitino contemporaries like 71-year-old Tom Izzo at Michigan State and 67-year-old John Calipari over at Arkansas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
There have been endless attempts to reconstruct exactly what Brunelleschi did, and why, for contemporaries were clear that this little object represented the birth of perspective painting.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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